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FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS. 
found to be affected with any Contagious or Infectious 
Disease, specifying the Disease, and the Ports from which, 
and to which, such Animals were brought, and the mode in 
which such Animals have been disposed of. 
Foreign 
ports from 
Ports in 
Great Britain 
Disease. 
Number of Animals ateected. 
Disposal. 
which 
brought. 
to which 
brought. 
Cattle. 
Sheep. 
Goats. 
Swine. 
Total. 
Slaughtered at 
place of landing. 
Bremen . 
London 
Sheep- 
scab 
447 
... 
447 
447 
Hamburg 
Hartlepool 
Foot-and- 
Mouth 
2 
3 
53 
58 
58 
77 
Middles- 
borough 
77 
4 
4 
4 
55 
Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne 
Sheep- 
scab 
445 
445 
445 
Rotterdam 
London 
Pleuro- 
Pneumon. 
3 
3 
3 
55 
Hull 
77 
1 
1 
1 
Total. 
. — Pleuro-Pneumonia 
4 
4 
4 
Foot-and-Mouth . 
2 
3 
57 
62 
62 
Sheep-scab . . 
892 
892 
892 
Total 
• 
6 
895 
57 
958 
958 
“ALEXANDER WILLIAMS, 
“ Privy Council Office, Secretary. 
“Veterinary Department, 11th May, 1871.” 
Facts and Observations. 
Royal Agricultural Society. — At the meeting of 
the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society on May 3rd, 
it was decided by 31 votes to 6, to hold the country meeting 
of the Society for 1872 at Cardiff. Cheltenham was the only 
competing town, Newport having withdrawn in consequence 
of the Inspection of Sites Committee not being able to report 
in favour of the accommodation offered by that place. At 
the same meeting it was also resolved to hold the meeting of 
1873 in the districts comprising the counties of Northumber- 
land and Durham and the North and East Ridings of York- 
shire. 
Texas Cattle Kings. — Texas, it is well-known, contains 
from half to two thirds of all the horned cattle reported by the 
census as in the United States. The vast herds of that State 
